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1587 in literature
List of years in literature
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1577
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1578
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1579
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1580
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1581
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1582
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1583
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1584
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1585
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1586
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1587
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1588
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1589
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1590
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1591
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1592
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1593
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1594
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1595
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1596
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1597
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1585
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1586
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1587
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1588
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1589
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1590
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1590s
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Events
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New books
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New drama
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Poetry
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Births
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Deaths
Events
The Rose
theatre is built by
Philip Henslowe
in
Southwark
.
Torquato Tasso
travels to Rome to stay with
Scipione Gonzaga
, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
New books
George Gifford
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A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers
John Penry
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The Æquity of an Humble Supplication
William Rankins -
A Mirror of Monsters
New drama
Poetry
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1587 in poetry
Births
June 21
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Kaspar von Barth
, German philologist (d. 1658)
November 17
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Joost van den Vondel
, Dutch dramatist (d. 1679)
date unknown
Michael Alford
, English Jesuit writer (d. 1652)
Francesco Angeloni
, Italian historian (d. 1652)
Nathan Field
, English dramatist (d. 1620)
Arthur Johnston
, Scottish poet (d. 1641)
Francis Kynaston
, English poet (d. 1642)
Alexander Leighton
, Scottish pamphleteer (d. c. 1644)
Deaths
March 15
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Kaspar Olevianus
, German Protestant theologian (b. 1536)
April 18
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John Foxe
, martyrologist (b. 1517)
September 19
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Pamelius
, Belgian theologian (b. 1536)
November
Catherine Des Roches
, French poet and author (b. 1542), and her mother
Madeleine Des Roches
, French poet and author (b. c. 1520)
date unknown
Dudley Fenner
, English theologian (b. c. 1558)
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